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your answer is yes and no if cease signs the deal there are no service issues and he will be up sooner rather than later. However, I'm not sure it would be this early. Definitely by the All star break though.

they want be 100% but the should be decent. For kopech that better than many of the 5th starters the six have been running out there.

He said that was KW's philosophy. Maybe it's changed since he was the GM.

There was a good interview with Hostetler over the weekend. He said the best advice he got from others, including KW, was to always draft the best player available. By the time it takes players to reach the MLB, no one knows how the MLB will look so drafting for need is a losing concept.

I think this should be a consideration. What it tells you is how they play against the better competition. During the season they may or may not have played against the best pitchers. whereas in post-season, they will. I'm not saying it's the only thing but it does need to be a consideration.

judging by the last few drafts, I think he is taking a different approach. The polished college hitters whi focus on OBP was never a priority before. So I think he is running the evaluations and draft differently.

I would agree that there is no rush However, I would base it more on how he is hitting the ball around the field more so than on pure ISO.

I would agree with the pay for draft picks until the slotted bonus structure came about. Since then JRs paying for the draft pick doesn't matter as the bonus money is like like free agents anymore. this is actually one thing I agreed with him on. Baseball drafts are so hit and miss compared to other sports that paying those huge bonuses failed more than it helped most teams. this is one innovation in the game that he pushed for and was the right thing for baseball.

Especially when he was in charge of minor league personnel prior to becoming GM.

of course they have a say except for possibly JR. I dont know his involved he is in the draft. The VP and GM do not go to the back fields in Mississippi and see every high school player. The area scouts and cross checkers do most of that dirty work. then the person in charge of the draft compiles it all. this is hostetler and his group. they compile everything. he will present the stuff to Hahn and KW. They have input on the first pick or two but after that they probably know very little. they have too much to do running the big club and the business side. Since Hostetler brought in his group, this is the regime I was referring to, the drafting group is only a few years old.

Everyone has a right to he concerned, however going back in history doesn't really apply The current head of the draft took over in 2016 with many new scouts and staff. you can live in the past or look at what really matters and judge the current group by what they have done. it is a mixed success in the minors and majors but to judge this group by what happened with previous regimes isn't really applicable.

I'm not sure he'll struggle as some of the others have at Birmingham. That place saps all HRs and makes the hitters change. He doesn't try for the HR anyway so it plays to his game.

he's learning how to pull the ball and take walks. I would say it is a successful year so far. if the strikeouts begin to increase as he pulls the ball more I way need to change that opinion.

Good point. I'm embracing the tank. I dont think they should sign 1 or 2 year free agents to take away draft picks or spots from young players. I really dont care if they lose this year I'm just not as despondent about this last series or negative about the future as most other people here. I think they should be losing and giving all the at bats to prospects. Once they started the tank, I think they should be all in on it and not do the short term gain route that Minnesota is.

going to school in Milwaukee (and working in the Brewers system later) I loved those games and rooting for them. We were Uecker's puckers in right field. I could root for them.

I dont think I could root for a Boston area team. the fans are just too annoying and I wouldn't want to be associated with them.

The agenda to be all negative all the time. I disagree that the first round has been awful as the most recent ones other than Fulmer which was bad unless he becomes a really good reliever. Most of the picks are still unproven either way. If you followed my posts I'm not a fan of JR. I just dont think that EVERY SINGLE THING the organization does is the worst possible thing in the history of the world. Ice been pretty fair in my criticism of both the front office and maybe overly critical of the blame on JR.

again I will need to hire you for the clinic since you can predict the players that will bust due to injury. just because they get injured doesn't mean it wasn't a good pick at the time. you live in revisionist history just to further your agenda.

Not if they came further south. ?

the only thing that slowed Mitchell down was the injury. that was the reason we never found out if he could be a real prospect. You just not have followed his career if you didnt know that so it's hard to call him a busted draft pick.

those are valid reasons to he disappointed in the front office.

you mentioned two guys in burger and mitchell. I have not defended any of the picks other than Rodon. I just said we dont know. you are the one saying guys like burger and Collins are busts.

Hawkins was bad. I still think Mitchell would have worked if he hadn't ruptured his post tib tendon. that's a devastating injury for a speed guy. I should hire you for my clinic the way you can predict who will get hurt. it will drive up the business.

he's a lot smaller than I thought from most descriptions I read of him. as the immortal John Kruk said, "lady, I ain't no athlete, I'm a baseball player." I wonder how Courtney Hawkins would look next to him. Now there was an athlete who of course could hit because he looked good and could do back flips.

if you look only at ERA which is a poor way to evaluate pitchers, he is still above average. this is including injury recovery so he was still a good MLB pitcher. that's better than many 1st round picks. burger was not out if shape. by all accounts he was a workout machine. he's just a big guy. even if he was out of shape that really doesn't have much bearing on an achilles tendon tear. even built like the Michelin as you say, does not mean he won't hit. Look at guys like puckett, gwynn, carew or kruk. just because you dont like the way he looked doesn't mean he won't hit. he doesn't have a history either way.